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House Roll Call 438, 105th Congress · September 25, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE SCOTT AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS BY $80 MILLION; SPECIAL ADVOCATE PROGRAM BY $13 MILLION; CHILD ABUSE TRAINING PROGRAM BY $8 MILLION; GRANTS TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN BY $40 MILLION; RESIDENTIAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT GRANTS BY $37 MILLION; DRUG COURTS BY $76.7 MILLION; AND LAW ENFORCEMENT FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMS BY $4 MILLION AND DECREASE THE FUNDING FOR THE VIOLENT OFFENDER INCARCERATION AND TRUTH IN SENTENCING INCENTIVE GRANTS PROGRAM BY $258.7 MILLION .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

129 yea · 291 nayFailed13 not voting or present
Democrat117 yea · 84 nay
Republican11 yea · 207 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2267 ↗

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.85): Shifts funds from prison/incarceration programs to prevention, treatment, and support programs.

    Tagged by: keyword:incarceration

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Net-neutral budget offset amendment transferring equal funds between programs.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (129)

Nay (291)

Not voting or present (13)

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